Malcolm D. Lee, director of the forthcoming Looney Tunes movie “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” told Entertainment Weekly last week that he demanded the female lead — a cartoon rabbit named “Lola Bunny” — be “desexualized” in order to ensure that little girls seeing the movie saw a “strong, capable” female character.
Lola Bunny was created out of whole cloth for the original 1996 “Space Jam” movie starring Michael Jordan alongside a crew of Looney Tunes regulars, including Bugs Bunny. In that film, Lola, who is extremely talented at basketball — but still a cartoon rabbit — is portrayed as “hot” and dressed in a crop top and skirt, exposing her midriff and showing off breasts that do not appear to be accurate to Lola’s species.
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